Official UK procurement notice
Cross Pavement Channels for On-street Electric Vehicle Charging
Authority: Hampshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHampshire County Council is considering whether cross‑pavement channels could form part of the county’s future on‑street electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
The Authority is intending to reach out to the market via market engagement. This market engagement is exploratory in nature and is intended to inform the potential scope, feasibility and considerations of any future approach to provide cross‑pavement cable management solutions. It seeks to develop a high‑level understanding of the market and available solutions rather than to assess or select suppliers or products.
In particular, Hampshire County Council is seeking information relating to:
- The types of cross‑pavement cable management solutions currently available and their level of market maturity.
- Technical design characteristics, materials and construction methods, and suitability for installation within the public highway.
- Safety, accessibility and equality considerations, including impacts on pedestrians and users with disabilities.
- Installation requirements, interaction with existing footway construction, and implications for inspection, maintenance and reinstatement.
- Operational, asset management and responsibility models, including ownership, liability and ongoing maintenance arrangements.
- High‑level indicative costs and commercial approaches adopted by other authorities or organisations.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Electric vehicles · Electrical installation work · Installation services of electrical equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Hampshire County Council buys Installation services of electrical equipment (CPV 5111), and who usually turns up
Hampshire County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Installation services of electrical equipment (CPV 5111) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in South East England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 9 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid13% / 33%
2–327% / 33%
4–623% / 11%
7+37% / 22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate31% / 50%
Within ±2%69% / 50%
Above estimate0% / 0%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 5111Published estimate£320k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–338%
4–623%
7+15%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 May 2026, 09:08 BST
- Last source update
- 4 Jun 2026, 09:55 BST
- Authority reference
UN29024- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-052606- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069415Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published166 days ago8 May 2026, 09:08 BST
- Latest notice published139 days ago4 Jun 2026, 09:55 BST
- Market engagement124 days ago18 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Hampshire County Council is considering whether cross‑pavement channels could form part of the county’s future on‑street electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Information gathered through this engagement will help determine whether such solutions are appropriate for Hampshire and, if so, inform future decision about delivery, management and operation.
To support us to prepare for any possible tender we would like to engage with the market through a questionnaire in order to:
- develop and refine service requirements
- test the feasibility of alternative commercial and pricing models
- understand market capacity and capability
- inform the Council’s procurement and contract strategy
To access the questionnaire, we kindly request that you firstly register on our e-tendering system in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire/aspx/Home ↗ . You will then need to Search for 'UN29024' or 'Cross' under 'Tenders' and then 'View Details' which should take you to our Market Engagement Questionnaire.
Alternatively, the following link should take you to the relevant page - in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire/aspx/Proje… ↗
Please submit your completed questionnaire by 2pm on the 18th June 2026. Any tendering opportunity in the future will also be held through this e-tendering system.
To process this questionnaire, we require basic personal information such as contact details. All information will be treated as CONFIDENTIAL and shared only with the Council’s Project Team. No details about your organisation, including names or contact details, will be shared without your express permission. The information will be destroyed following completion of this project.
Further details on how we process personal information can be found on our Privacy Notice: www.hants.gov.uk/aboutthecouncil/privacy ↗.
If you have any issues with access, format or other, please email [email protected]
Important Note
This market engagement questionnaire is for information-gathering purposes only. Hampshire County Council is not committed to procuring the service at this stage. Progression to procurement is subject to budget approval and internal governance.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 104 days1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 162 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 May 2026, 09:08 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 May 2026, 11:53 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Jun 2026, 09:55 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender